Today I learned to love my wife
though she touched another
and I give thanks
for one more crutch removed.
Today, love was the same love
but my fear was less.
Love's beginning to overwhelm me
and my control's slipping.
Today machismo and jealousy
were found to be just forms
which but poorly define
the word love.
Today, faith, such an anathema
to the preservation of my ego,
carried me off a little further
into the total chaos of oneness.
gallagher
26 mar 75
Buena Park
— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —